How to format your references using the Journal of Cleaner Production citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Cleaner Production. For a complete guide how to prepare your manuscript refer to the journal's instructions to authors.

Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

Paperpile	The citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNote	Download the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal.

Journal articles

Those examples are references to articles in scholarly journals and how they are supposed to appear in your bibliography.

Not all journals organize their published articles in volumes and issues, so these fields are optional. Some electronic journals do not provide a page range, but instead list an article identifier. In a case like this it's safe to use the article identifier instead of the page range.

A journal article with 1 author

Danger, B., 2007. Don’t stop me now. Nature 445, 334–335.

A journal article with 2 authors

Badman, M.K., Flier, J.S., 2005. The gut and energy balance: visceral allies in the obesity wars. Science 307, 1909–1914.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bailor, M.H., Sun, X., Al-Hashimi, H.M., 2010. Topology links RNA secondary structure with global conformation, dynamics, and adaptation. Science 327, 202–206.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Jaworski, T., Dewachter, I., Lechat, B., Gees, M., Kremer, A., Demedts, D., Borghgraef, P., Devijver, H., Kügler, S., Patel, S., Woodgett, J.R., Van Leuven, F., 2011. GSK-3α/β kinases and amyloid production in vivo. Nature 480, E4-5; discussion E6.

Books and book chapters

Here are examples of references for authored and edited books as well as book chapters.

An authored book

Richards, T., 2014. Investing Psychology. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Bahns, D., Bauer, W., Witt, I. (Eds.), 2016. Quantization, PDEs, and Geometry: The Interplay of Analysis and Mathematical Physics, 1st ed. 2016. ed, Operator Theory: Advances and Applications. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Kuroki, Y., Uraoka, T., Wolkersdörfer, G.W., 2014. High-Resolution Endoscopic Ultrasound: Clinical T-Staging of Mucosal Neoplasms, in: Berr, F., Oyama, T., Ponchon, T., Yahagi, N. (Eds.), Early Neoplasias of the Gastrointestinal Tract: Endoscopic Diagnosis and Therapeutic Decisions. Springer US, Boston, MA, pp. 71–82.

Web sites

Sometimes references to web sites should appear directly in the text rather than in the bibliography. Refer to the Instructions to authors for Journal of Cleaner Production.

Blog post

Carpineti, A., 2016. Mini-Spiral Galaxies Might Tell A Different Dark Matter Story [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (accessed 10.30.18).

Reports

This example shows the general structure used for government reports, technical reports, and scientific reports. If you can't locate the report number then it might be better to cite the report as a book. For reports it is usually not individual people that are credited as authors, but a governmental department or agency like "U. S. Food and Drug Administration" or "National Cancer Institute".

Government report

Government Accountability Office, 2000. Math and Science Education: Comprehensive Information About Federally Funded Materials Not Available (No. HEHS-00-110). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Bristow, L.W., 2009. There is an old woman: The final stage of individuation (Doctoral dissertation). Pacifica Graduate Institute, Carpinteria, CA.

News paper articles

Unlike scholarly journals, news papers do not usually have a volume and issue number. Instead, the full date and page number is required for a correct reference.

New York Times article

Poniewozik, J., 2017. Will He Let Loose the Hounds? New York Times C5.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Danger, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Badman and Flier, 2005; Danger, 2007).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Badman and Flier, 2005)
Three or more authors: (Jaworski et al., 2011)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Cleaner Production
Abbreviation	J. Clean. Prod.
ISSN (print)	0959-6526
Scope	Strategy and Management Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering General Environmental Science